Papadopoulos Plea Prompts Senate Call To Question Sessions

06 November 2017

"I had a very brief hello to a couple of people".

But Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, said Thursday that he told House investigators that he informed Sessions about a trip he was taking to Russian Federation during the 2016 campaign.

"I would think that Carter page aspect of this is... troubling", Wallace said.

Senate Democrats have called on Jeff Sessions to clarify just how much he knew about attempts by the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election, following revelations that the attorney general was previously in a meeting with former Trump campaign aide-turned special counsel cooperator George Papadopoulos. Page described the conversation to CNN after he finished talking to the House intelligence committee.

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) on Friday slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not telling him the truth during his January confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and again in October during a separate congressional hearing.

"He now needs to come back before the Committee, in person, under oath, to explain why he can not seem to provide truthful, complete answers to these important and relevant questions", Leahy said in a statement. "I believe that's the only thing I ever got".

It concerned various Russian contacts, including Joseph Mifsud, a London academic who allegedly spent months trying to connect Papadopoulos with official in Moscow, according to news reports.

The email, dated March 24, 2016, was highlighted Papadopoulos' plea agreement announced Monday. Revelations that the attorney general was previously in a meeting with former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos and was told about Page's trips to Russian Federation have been raised by lawmakers as a subject of further inquiry.

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The email went to "several members of the campaign's foreign policy team", according to the documents.

Sam Clovis, a 25-year Air Force veteran and onetime talk show host from Iowa, served as co-chair and policy adviser to the Trump campaign. A source told NBC on Thursday night that Sessions rejected Papadopoulos' proposal to set up a meeting between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I actually had a previously scheduled meeting with some top US military officers thousands of miles away from Washington", he said.